machine learning

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science degree in 2004 from Tulane University, New Orleans. I am currently employed as an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Montana State University. My current research interests lie in the areas of the organization and computational analysis of very large data repositories (i.e. Databases, Machine Learning and Data Mining). My research has been sponsored by the NGA, NASA, NSF, RightNow Technologies and Intergraph Corporation.

Dr. John Sheppard was the inaugural RightNow Technologies Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at Montana State University and currently holds an appointment as Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at MSU. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. In 2007, he was elected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to system-level diagnosis and prognosis." Prior to joining Hopkins, he was a Fellow at ARINC Incorporated in Annapolis, MD where he worked for almost 20 years. Dr.